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GitHub - can't fork a fork

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#160,377 opened on Sep 8, 2022

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Description

  • Open my codespace which is on https://github.com/mdehling/stable-diffusion
  • Try to push a commit on the notebook branch (is there a command to fork manually because I didn't remember that I have to try to push to get the fork prompt to show up?)
  • Get an error:

Because upstream was already set to the real upstream

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/mdehling/stable-diffusion (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/mdehling/stable-diffusion (push)
upstream        https://github.com/joaomoreno/stable-diffusion.git (fetch)
upstream        https://github.com/joaomoreno/stable-diffusion.git (push)

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Research direction
Investigate how VS Code's git extension handles the push scenario when the remote 'origin' points to a fork of another fork and 'upstream' is set to the original repository. The error suggests that the fork detection logic incorrectly identifies the upstream as the parent, preventing push. Trace the code path in the GitHub authentication flow to find where fork detection occurs and add support for forks of forks.
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typescript
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developer experiencetooling
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